03 January 2009

calendar


so this may look a little confusing, but it is the calendar for our voyage! here are some hints to help interpret all those boxes:

- everything is in military time.

- the A1, B1, A2, etc. are the days we have classes. this will only be on days that we are "cruising," and not in port. my schedule is:

A days: 0800-0915 english as a global language
920-1035 global studies
1045-1200 languages of the world

B days: 0920-1035 global studies
1455-1610 nutrition around the world
- the grey areas are the times that we are in port. the white is when we are on the ship.

- in the days between hong kong and shanghai china, as well as kobe and yokohama japan, students do not have to be on the boat. there are no classes these days as a result of that. the theory is that students would rather get themselves to the second port on their own and spend more time in the ports. plus, at this point, we will have been to many ports and will have more confidence exploring the cities.

- there will be two april 12th's! this is the result of crossing the international dateline.

- we will be changing time zones constantly throughout the trip. i'm relatively lucky to live on the east coast and to begin the journey in the same time zone. the west coast kids won't be so fortunate. SAS was nice enough to figure out all the time changes and list them out for us.
Based on Eastern Standard Time,
the time on-ship is behind by the number of hours listed below:
Spain: +6 hours
Morocco: +5 hours
Namibia: +7 hours
South Africa: +7 hours
Mauritius: + 10 hours
India: +10.5 hours
Thailand: +11 hours
Vietnam: +11 hours
China: +12 hours
Japan: +13 hours
Hawaii: -6 hours
Guatemala: -2 hours

okay i think thats all i could figure out thus far, off to get things accomplished.
14 days until the bahamas, 16 until embarkation!

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